Monday, April 17, 2017
Greed Comments
Rating: ★4.3
Catch the sun
And lock into the cell
To offer it for sale…
Guy, you're still not happy.
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Stuart Peskett
18 April 2017
Well said Gale, there are far too many people like this sadly.
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8/2/2025 11:14:29 AM # 1.0.0
I've read many Russian poems in the four-line stanza (Pasternak, Blok, Tsvetaeva, et al.) and it is so well suited to develop a poetic argument as you do here. Your images and ideas both flow with such ease and emphasis in this poem. // Your poem develops a very clear MORAL argument; there is no way the people you are addressing can squirm out of their guilt. It's too obvious after you made your case that they have put personal profit over all humane issues and are willing to ravage the earth for their gain. Your poem shows the loneliness of a greedy person. The key line is YOU BELIEVE THAT WEALTH IS WORTH YOUR SOUL..That is a golden message to my mind. You cannot make a more eloquent argument to changr their behavior to the good, the altruistic.
Thank you so much, Daniel, for your profound comment) Though you know me, I don't like to blame, much more I like to observe and search for the reasons and their consequenses. I didn't want to blame. In my opinion greed is sooner a problem to solve than a sin to punish. And I wish people would cling to good words a bit less. Altruistic is a good word, but it's not absolute. For example people often think that giving money to the poor is very good, gracious and altruistic, and some inventive persons steal babies and gave them drug injections and use them for begging more money, because people have more pity for a woman with a baby than just for a woman. So the criminals get all the money while babies die. Altruism isn't a simple matter. And maybe that's one of the reasons why I believe that money is overvalued.